Hair

[RhiaaaanDude]

Hello, at the minute i have long, dark brown hair. Before i put the dark brown dye on i had blonde highlights, which have since faded. The dark brown hair dye is coming out now, and i really want to be a nice blonde colour. I can't afford to go to the hairdressers at the minute so i thought that once the dye has completely washed out, i would put on a light brown hair dye, then gradually get lighter, using it out of the box. i was wondering if anybody thought this would work or has done it before? thanksss x

[weeal]

It would have to 'grow' out possibly as its very hard to dye 'lighter' than the colour it is presently. I have had to go darker when I wanted to go lighter cos I have long hair too.

Maybe a more knowledgeable ABer will come up with a solution tho it may involve bleaching/stripping of the colour.

[terambulan]

Once your hair is dyed it has been processed so further processing makes no difference to the hair, conditioning is all important to processed hair.

Lightening hair is best in a salon with professional treatments (for colour accuracy), you will need stronger strength peroxide-40v. However, off the shelf products (to save exes) can be corrected by a good stylist.

Look for 40v on shelf treatments.

[yummymum]

it took me a long time to get back to blonde after being dark brown, bleach (highlights} were the only way in the end then i put a dye over the top which was close to my natural blonde colour. However i did mange to lighten the dark brown by using vosene shampoo, the seemed to strip a lot of the colour out so try that for a few weeks and you should manage to get a few shades lighter without damaging your hair. I got the idea of the net, if you google it you will find plenty of people it as worked for.

[RhiaaaanDude]

Thanks (: